Mog Spawn@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workerswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down12
arrow-up1177arrow-down1external-linkNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workerswww.reuters.comMog Spawn@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-22 hours agoAFAIK JPL is part of the University of California, not NASA and I’m pretty sure this isn’t the first round of layoffs at JPL in the last few years. Edit: It’s Caltech. I misremembered.
minus-square14th_cylon@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-29 hours agohttps://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ -> ABOUT About JPL JPL is a research and development lab federally funded by NASA and managed by Caltech.
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoI misremembered, but my point still stands; the decision for layoffs, this being the third round in 18 months, didn’t come from the government it came from JPLs management which isn’t NASA.
AFAIK JPL is part of the University of California, not NASA and I’m pretty sure this isn’t the first round of layoffs at JPL in the last few years.
Edit: It’s Caltech. I misremembered.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ -> ABOUT
About JPL JPL is a research and development lab federally funded by NASA and managed by Caltech.
I misremembered, but my point still stands; the decision for layoffs, this being the third round in 18 months, didn’t come from the government it came from JPLs management which isn’t NASA.